“One relevant data point: the continent is home to 65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Amini data can not only offer farmers insights on best practices, it might also unlock development that could feed the world as climate change wreaks havoc on today’s breadbaskets.”

Concrètement, la Deep Tech récolte des données à partir de satellites, de drones, et the capteurs terrestres, puis utilise l'apprentissage automatique et les analyses prédictive pour transformer ces vastes ensembles en renseignements "actionnables". "Nous ne vendons pas des données. Nous vendons un outil pour prendre de meilleures décisions", explique l'entrepreneuse.

Data is the engine of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Every one of us continuously generates data—economic, social, political, and medical, among others. “Data is a seed for economic transformation,” says Kate Kallot, founder and CEO of Amini, a Nairobi-based environmental-data company. Data is at the center of international markets and shapes entire sectors. But where data can’t be collected, read, or analyzed, people, regions, and economies—even weather—can be effectively “invisible,” says Kallot. By this definition, Africa is “the most data-scarce continent,” she says. Over the next decade, Africa’s working-age population will increase by 450 million—nearly 70%—and make its mark on the world. Yet broad swaths of the continent are not represented, economically or politically, in the tools we use more and more to understand the world, because most of the sub-Saharan region lacks broad-based access to the high-speed internet.

“Working with Amini goes toward HP’s efforts to have a sustainable impact. This is making a difference for the planet, for the people and for the communities, and we see this as something that can scale.”

“We believe that this technology offers new opportunities for corporates, farmers, and regulators as they try to close the loop around agricultural value chains. We hope that the collaboration between Aon and Amini will create further opportunities to strengthen supply chains and accelerate our climate transition.”